Sanitary dry closet.



C. T. HENlGER-.

SANITARY DRY CLOSET.

APPLlCATION FILED AUG.13. 1912.

1 264393., Patented Apr. 3Q, 1918.

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CHARLES T. HENIGER, OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO J. B. SMILEY, 0F BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA.

snnrranx DRY CLOSET.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 3i), 191%.

Application filed. August 13, 1917. Serial No. 185,967.

To all whom it may concern Be it known, that 1, CHARLES '1. I-lnmcnn, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Birmingham, in the county of Jcflersonand State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sanitary Dry Closets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a sanitary dry movable bucket or container, the compartment being provided with suitable ventilating means and as far as possible adapted to The objection to such closets arises principally from the bucket compartment becoming dirty and objectionable and tending to rot and. deteriorate rapidly.

The chief purpose of my invention is to eliminate the closed compartmentunder the seat and to substitute a hanger or'supporting means by which the bucket is held in position beneath the toilet seat with the fly proof closure means effective only to protect the clearance between the top of the bucket and theseat." Obviously such an arrangement leaves the body of the bucket freely exposed to the open air and makes it impossible for any dirt'or filth to accumulate about the closet.

My invention may therefore be said to consist broadly in suspending or supporting beneaththe'seat a bucket or container free of any inclosing compartment and providing means to embrace and inclose its top only so as to exclude flies and carry off odors from the bucket; The simplest manner to thus support the bucket is to provide the seat with hanger slide guides and the bucket with side flanges adapted to rest on the guides, means being provided at each end of the guides which, in conjunction wlth the bucket and seat, serve to inclose the top of the bucket. The bucket should'be suspended sufficiently below the seat to provide stood by reference to the accompanying drawings which illustrate its preferred embodiment only, and in which Figure 1 is a front view of my dry closet with the building broken away and the front walls under the seat shown in dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a rear view of Fig. 1 with the bucket partly withdrawn from its hangers and the building walls omitted.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section through the toilet seat and hangers with the bucket shown in dotted lines.

Fig. 4; is a cross sectional view taken on the lines l4: of Fig. 3, with the bucket shown in full lines.

Similar reference numeralsrefer to similar parts throughout the drawings.

My invention is as well adapted for application to the old style dry closets as to dry closets especially designed to receive it. In Fig. 1 I have shown my invention as applied to an old style closet 1 having a seat 2, vertical end supporting boards 3 for the seat and front boards 4 extending from the scat downwardly to the floor 5. In applying my invention to such a construction, the seat 2 is sawed away at the center and the upper front board 4 is notched out to provide a rectangular space 6 adapted to receive with a snug lit a vertically disposed board 7 which depends from the front end of the seat board attachment 8 which overlaps and is connected by nails or screws 9 to the sides of the seat 2 of the dry closet. The seat board 8 has a central opening 10 which is normally closed by a hinged cover 11 having a handle 12 at its front end and a hinge pin 13 at its rear end working in staples-1d driven in the top of the seat 8. On each side of the hole 10 underneath the seat board 8 I mount two parallel Z-bars 15, the upper out-turned flanges of which are nailed or screwed to the underface of the seat board 8 and the lower inturned flanges 16 of which form horizontal slide guides from which the bucket or container 17 is slidably suspended. It will be observed in Fig. l that the board 7 has a plurality of vent holes 18 therein protected within by which extend the full length of the sides,

of the rectangular top of the bucket and engage base flanges 16 of the Z-bars to form sliding side joints co-extensive in length with the sides of the bucket. The bottom portion of the bucket may be of any shape desired. The front edge of the bucket top lies parallel with the board 7 and is adapted to abut against it just below the holes 18 therein so as to close the front end of the clearancev between the bucket top and seat. I provide a self closing flap door 21 preferably formed, of metal rolled about a hinge pin 22 which turns in staples 23 driven into the rear end of the seat board 8. The bucket is of such length that when its front edge abuts against the board 7 its rear edge will project slightly beyond the center of gravity of the flap door- 21 so that the latter will hang against it and the rear ends of the Z-bars 15 by gravity to close atthe rear the clearance between the top of the bucket and the seat. The bucket has a bail handle 24: and a rear strap handle 25. and the main seat 2 of the closet is reinforced at the rear by braces 26, the boards tat the front serving to support the seat 2 at its front, though brace straps may be used if desired.

The seat board 8 is provided with a vent hole 27 at its rear with which a vertical vent stack 28 communicates and extends upwardly through the roof of the closet. This stack acts to draw a ventilating circulation of air along the path of arrows shown in Fig. 3, the air entering through the ports 18 and flowing lengthwise over the bucket and up through the stack, thus carrying away all odors and discharging them without the closet. The angle irons 2O effectively reinforce the sides of the bucket and insure a tight joint with the Z-bars 15 and the top edge of the bucket is preferably additionally reinforced by a bent metal rod 29 inclosed in a bead surrounding the top edgeof the bucket.

In operation, to clean the bucket, it is only necessary to draw the bucket rearwardly on its sliding supports, the flap door 21 swinging to permit the bucket to be entirely withdrawn for being dumped. To reinstate the. bucket the flap door 21 is held up, the angle guides 20 on the sides of the bucket are mounted on the flanges 16 of the Z-bars and the bucket slid forwardly until its front end engages the board 7, whereupon the flap door 21 will swing closed and the bucket top will be inclosed and protected from fiies or insects gaining access thereto while its body is freely suspended in the open air.

As stated before, the shape of the bucket can be widely varied so long as its hanger supports and rear flap are adapted in conjunction with the seat to effectively inclosc the top of the bucket when in operating position.

lVhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a sanitary dry closet, a toilet seat having a hole therein and a cover for the hole, a removable bucket having top flanges, a hanger means under the seat adapted to engage said flanges and support the bucket substantially spaced from the seat, means to inclose only the top clearance between the bucket andseat, said means having a front screened vent, and a stack to permit a ventil ting draft to pass between the seat and top of the bucket.

2. In a sanitary dry closet, a seat having a hole, hanger guides underhung from the 8 seat on; each side of the hole, a bucket having sidehangers at its top adapted to slidably co-act with said seat hangers to suspend the bucket, said cota'cting hangers serving on the sides to closev the clearance between the top of the bucket and the seat, means to close said clearance at the front, and a flap. door to. close said clearance at the rear.

3. In combination, a toilet, seat havin a hole, two parallel hanger bars suspen ed from the seat on each side of the hole in parallelism, a bucket having parallel side flanges adapted to slidably rest on said hanger bars to suspend the bucket therefrom, said flanges, and bars forming side closures for the clearance between the top of thebucket and the seat, depending means at the front end of the seat to make a tight joint with the front end of the bucket top, and a flap door adapted to. engage said side closures and bucketto. close the clearance between the rear end of the bucket top and the seat, substantially as described.

I. In a sanitary dry closet, a seat having a hole therein, a removable cover for the hole, parallel angle bars suspended from the seat on each side of the hole therein, a bucket having a rectangular top, angle irons attached to. the sides of the top and co-extensive in length therewith and adapted to. slidably engage said angle bars to suspend the bucket, a front board against which the forward end of the bucket top abuts when in operating position, and a rear hinged door adapted to engage the rear ends of the angle guides and the rear edge of the bucket to close at the rear the top clearance, between the bucket and the scat, there being ventilating openings for the access of air above the bucket near the front, and a ventilating stack having communication with the bucket near the rear end of the seat, substantially as described.

5. In a sanitary dry closet, a receptacle having a rectangular top With out-turned flanges the full length of each side, a toilet seat, means to suspend the bucket by said flanges from the side, and means including a movable door at the rear to close the clearance between the top of the bucket and the seat.

6. In a sanitary dry closet, a receptacle having a rectangular top With out-turned flanges the full length of each side, a toilet seat, a shallow frame closed at the front and on each side to receive said flanges and suspend the bucket by said flanges, and a door to close the clearance between the top of the bucket, the seat and the rear ends of said frame, there being air inlet holes and a draft stack to ventthe space between the bucket top and seat, substantially as described In testimony vvhereof I affix my signature.

CHARLES T. HENIGER.

Witness NOMIE WELSH.

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